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Monday, November 25, 2013

Aprillian, Leeta, Rogueslayer and Tedrah discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's great MMORPG. Contest Ongoing send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play WoW, either as an altaholic or dealing with it in your family life to being placed in a drawing for a WoW Pet or an Authenticator.

Trying to do my pet battle round dual boxing Auruk and Astara every day

Realized I should be doing living steel transmutes on Asata

Leeta

1/ TNAK Guild hit Level 23 - Mage hit Lvl54

Questing and dungeon runs have been good fun.

Finding the spells are starting to gel more with me now - even though still long cast times I don’t feel like such a noob hehe

2/ Had great pleasure of chatting with Strumpet about pets on her show All Pets Allowed

3/ Dualboxing - Keyclone has not been working for me- not sure what’s going wrong though big shout out to Cloggie for trying to fix my problem with it! Sstill using Jamba which is really useful for quests sharing etc

Warlocks - Leeta from Aerie Peak and Lita from Winterhoof

Baby Warlocks hit Lvl50 today

4/ Leeta - rep grinding ShaoHao using the Celebration Package for some bonus rep - still a horrible grind though makes it a little better knowing I’m getting a touch more rep each kill

5/ WoW Birthday - 9 years! What an amazing journey the past 9 years has been - I’ve been blessed to have made so many wonderful friends from all over the world :) Thank you World of Warcraft & Happy Birthday!

And to those friends I have made - a big thank you for being a wonderful part of my life!

6/ Memorable Moments -

a/The first time I came upon Undercity as a lowly Warlock - took my breathe away!

b/ The first time I missed the Undercity elevator and plunged to my death!

c/ The first time I travelled from Eastern Kingdoms to Kalimdor - realising how big this game really was!

d/ Standing in front of Orgrimmar completely mesmerised!

e/ The first ever dungeon I went into - Wailing Caverns - has such a special place in my heart!

f/ The first 100g I made - was so excited I rang my bf (at the time) to tell him

g/ Doing my first ever raid - Zul’Gurub 20man and a little while later doing Molten Core - 40 man - was so very nervous as had never done anything like this before!

Emails

Love your podcast!!!!! Wanna join your guild!!!!!!!!!!

Hello Ladies,

I wanted to say I have been listing to your podcast for the last month. Just before blizzcon hit. I am so excited for the next expansion. I think the world of you guys. In such a short time of listening you all tell us about your weekly adventures on Earthen Ring in the CoD guild has made me make a new toon on your server and hoping and praying to one day get a invite from you as I am adventuring and questing across the great lands of the eastern kingdom with my new toon named Deathstryder. I just started my toon today. I sent some request on twitter for some help to find a member of you out there. I have had no luck finding you in Browse Guild Tab to ask for a request. But I wanna join the family and quest and dungeon and raid and omg be part of you family. I check your website every few days for a new podcast on cntl alt wow. I am hooked.

thanks for you time.

Deathstryder

PS I can't wait to here about your next adventures.

snuggles, huggles and even kisses.

1st day on server. 1st day of clan of darkness member!

Dear Ladies of Cntl Alt Wow,

Omg my first day in the guild was so amazing. I reached level 21. I got to meet some cool people that made me feel at home. Dear Pixie without even asking or sugeesting gives me some start up gold to get me going. The hello and greeting were overwealming. So many people say if you need anything just ask away. I been on the horde side on the server Icecrown for 5 years now. I have 11 toon there from lvl 70-90.

Visited guild after guild looking for the fuzzy feeling inside of completeness inside. For people who are nice, friendly, and supportive and like to have fun. I fealt this more in one day in your guild than i have in 5 years on Icecrown. I am so excited to get to know all of you.

PS. I have done alot of raids and dungeons. I am so excited sometime in the future when i can fit into some bigger britches then the ones i am wearing i can join some of your teams.

thanks for your time.

Newest member

Deathstryder

WOOT!

Greetings oh charming and delightful CAW crew!

I've had a bit of a dilemma over the past several weeks trying to maintain my max level characters and have been going somewhat mad in the process. Instead of singling out a "main" and maxing out his gear and running LFR's or scooting about the timeless isle in search of burdens, I have chosen to do this with seven 90's and have fallen behind. Oh sure, they're all at least LFR geared, gemmed and enchanted, but am I really going to run LFR twenty eight times a week? Am I going to run the legendary questline seven times? If I do, am I going to have fun? NO I say! But I want to be good at every class I play, so what do I do? I want to collect pets. I want to go on guild runs. I want to finish the brawlers guild. I want to get my final two farms to sixteen slots. I want to solo old raids for pets and transmog gear. If I don't do these things (and more) this anxiety will carry over to the new expansion which I'm guessing is less than a year away. I have limited playtime and it really sucks being a completionist who can't seem to complete anything. There is at least a one in four chance that one of you awesome hosts has some organizational skills and a four in four chance that even if you don't, your organizational skills are better than mine. Please help me get this mess under control!

On a lighter note, I was finally able to tame Gib the Banana Hoarder. He was my most sought after hunter pet for this expansion. I think it's funny that in Wrath I had to fight every hunter on the server for days to tame Arcturis (the spirit bear). In Cataclysm I kited Death'tilac the molten spider all around the firelands for twenty minutes, and I've been unable until recently to tame this silly, fez wearing monkey who just stands around the Swamp of Sorrows flinging poo.

So thanks in advance and here's to hoping you all have a great week in and out of game.

Big Steve

Hello,

I just found your podcast yesterday, and I am really enjoying it. I am slowly becoming an altaholic and am loving it. I would like to join your guild if at all possible. I tend to be more of a casual player but always game for raids and dungeons. Also love guild events. I play a DK named Poleth on earthen ring. Looking forward to joining your guild if possible. Thank You for your consideration.

Poleth

Joining guild

Hey Ctrl Alt Wow, only been listening to the pod cast for a few days listened to a few older episode and seemed like a fun guild to be in so i was wondering if I would be able to get invited please.

Thanks.

Logan

It's all 12 no 13

I have had a busy week out of game this week and not much in game well here’s my audio

Big G

Last Minute Audio!!!

So Hi again, CAW crew!

I sure hope Tedra is there, because this audio requires a little setup for it not to seem creepy.

Way back in the day--a long time ago when Jeppy and Ashayo were still on the show, I felt bad that Tedra didn't have an intro. I realize that she mostly took care of the chatroom and I've heard some things recently that almost sound like intros, but I've wanted to do this for a long time. Due to forces beyond my control I was unable to finish it until literally just now. I realize that it's too long for an intro, but I bet it would make a good ringtone.

Cheers,

Big Steve

Addon Spotlight:

with Grand Nagus

Shout Outs & Thank You

Clan of Darkness

Hey Gang! I have to send in an audio this week.

I also sent some screenshots from Friday nights raid!

Have a great show!

Take care,

Donnie

Hello Ctrlaltwow Crew

It has never happened that I write to you 2 weeks in a row but I come bearing a gift.

I won the top 25 in Guild activity competition we had last week in the game. I won an Armored Bloodwing and I thank Donnie for the gift. I already have this mount so I thought I would give it to you Ladies to give away.

You might be able to have a competition of your own and get somebody to make you a new Email bumper.

Anyway I love the new line up. You Ladies are awesome. Have a great week.

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Aprillian, Leeta, Rogueslayer and Tedrah discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's great MMORPG. Contest Ongoing send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play WoW, either as an altaholic or dealing with it in your family life to being placed in a drawing for a WoW Pet or an Authenticator.

You know sometimes when I say that I'm thinking that really as we play wow with each other it's real enough right?

Anyway just a short email this time, tell you the truth I'm tired but a good tired. We did our Friday night run and it was a blast!

Death Wing Decent, our leader last night was the awesome Leeta and she knows her stuff! Even Aprillian joined us this time,

I love it when she decides to come along and Ashayo came along too. Awesome tanks Rokwyn & Juuno, was really proud of my

girl she did an amazing job even with not being geared up yet :) Amazing heals and the hunter's in our group rocked!

Anyway after our raid run, a few of us decided to head to the Timeless Isles for some more fun. Took Juuno up to the top Ordon Sancuary, Juuno got her first Burden, and some awesome gear, left all this up to Kzeah he knows his way around :) Ashayo beat us up there by way of the

golden kite and found a couple of rares which I proceeded on dying quite a few times lol It was 2:30am when I finely logged off and climbed into bed, just to be woken back up by the logger's working across the road at 6!

Anyway my son Terry and my buddy Moe are loving playing with all of our COD guildes, thanks for making them feel at home :)

Thanks to the help Terry got from Ron, Willopelt, Tirefire and the support he gets from all of you, he is back into doing dungeons and

having a great time. Willopelt said Terry could heal for a dungeon last week, and I could see fear on Terry's face but he did great and when Donnie & Willopelt told him after it was all done that he did a awesome job his face lit right up! Willopelt gives you the courage to try and that's

Trying a new way to play - set up Jamba (which is now available through Curse) and got myself Keyclone

Rogueslayer

GoPro!!!

Pet Battles, or A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Flowers (screenshot)

Wil of the Week: Tiavara, Alliance Druid on Zangarmarsh

Five 100-year-old-soy sauce = 289g

Memories - Rogueslayer name, gnome duel

Emails

Audio From Jackzz

Hey Ctrl alt Wow! Im Jackzz! And here is my story about one of my coolest moments in the game.

Hope you like it!

Jackzz

Catching up!

Hail and well met, Ladies (and Gentlemen) of Ctrl-Alt-WoW!

It feels like such a long, long time since I sent a missive to the podcast. I know it’s probably not been that long, but just feels that way. I suspect because RL’s felt pretty crushing on me for the last month plus with family medical issues. They’re stable now, but there will be surgery in the middle of December, so I’m just waiting for my first grey hairs to start sprouting. Ugh.

Well, at any rate, here are some random thoughts that I’ve been trying to keep gathered up to share, since I’ve tried to listen to several of the last prodcasts that have come out since All Hallow’s End.

Auction House Closed – It struck me that the reason that the AH may be closed after a restart/rolling-restart, is because with connected realms now, they may close them until all the connected realms have fully restarted, so no one has an advantage in the market place because one side is down while the other is up. If the realm isn’t a connected realm, it may be a piece of code in there that’s causing the closing in case of a future them when/if the realm is connected to another.

Marionette Pet – I’m afraid I too had the same problem with getting the new pet this year as Aprillian ran into late on some of her alt’s…I knew it went through Sunday, but when I logged in, went to Thunderbluff, had my flowers and was ready…I couldn’t activate the quest line. I thought, ‘Wow, this is weird.’ So I looked at the calendar and saw that it ended at 2PM server time. It was 2:40PM server. Double-Ugh! So, I did not get a Marionette on either of my main characters or any other alts. /pout

What was I looking forward to with BlizzCon: Cosplay is always keen. Expansion news is always good too. I was really looking forward to getting to see the AIE Guild Hall Live Stream, but due to bandwidth issues, that didn’t happen. That was the biggest bummer. [Insert more cute-Tauren-pouting here.] I didn’t get the Virtual Ticket, so I just had to follow various social medial updates. It was, meh, okay.

Timeless Isle Casino: Just a little note, I once pulled something out of one of the chest that was “x300 Timeless Coins” It didn’t click at the time, but after I left, I looked my coins afterwards and wished, in retrospect, I’d waited until I had more coins before I got the multiplier. I only had a few hundred coins at the time, which turned into sever tens of thousands. Generally, I’ve done okay with the Casino. Several Burdens of Eternity, lots of armor pieces. One of the things about the Isle that troubles me is that you get repeated pieces, even if you have them in your bag. I’d like to see that limited so I don’t have 5 sets of mail/plate shoulders in my bag at once.

What to do with Justice Points: When you’ve got all the gear upgrades you can with Justice Points, and you’re just interested in Valor Points, those pesky JP keep piling up, when you’ve got them topped out, head back to Orgimmar and trade your Justice Points in for Honor Points. 500 JP will get you 250 Honor Points. Then you tote those Honor Points over where you can buy PvP mounts for 2,000 Honor Points each.

While I’m thinking about Mounts: There’s been all this discussion about the Tundra Mounts in Dalaran… I’ve only gotten the base mount up there. I didn’t want to spend the extra cash on the other mounts with vendors. However, it’s not because I didn’t have the cash…I’m just a little conservative when it comes to buying stuff, if it’s not a upgraded enchant or gem for a new armor/weapon upgrade for raiding. However, with all this recent discussion …I might be tempted to stop by Dalaran and see about that Tundra Mount with the regular vendors. We’ll see.

Pet Battling: My in-game time feels too limited to spend doing pet battles, though I’ve tried a couple of times to do it and gotten pets up to around level 8. So, as a result, I’m waiting for the mobile app for Pet Battling. I didn’t hear anything about that from the snippets I heard from BlizzCon. I presume I didn’t miss anything, because surely you’d have discussed something like that if it had been mentioned, yes? Did anyone even ask a question about that and it just hasn’t gotten much coverage, or was it simply not asked about?

Story Time –

It seems like so long ago. With all the things I’ve done, all the places I’ve been. The world seemed so big, so vast, so expansive in the beginning. Now …now it seems so much smaller. But, my people have always known that the world was smaller than we felt it was. We’ve roamed the plains for such a long while, being close to the Earthmother in all that we are, all that we do. For me, there always seems to be a hint of darkness hiding behind every corner, though I know it’s merely a shadow, that disappears quickly when the Light is cast towards it.

Long ago, when I was young, my clan settled in the Bitterroot Valley. There we lived in peace. Just beyond the confines of the valley, a small family of humans settled and began to farm. My young kin and I would spend hours watching from hiding, practicing our skills as we remained unseen in the tree line. The man, his mate and their children built a small home and cared for the soil. They were gentle folk, never overworking the land, never taking more than just what they needed. Eventually, the Elders discovered our spying upon our neighbors and chose to introduce themselves. There were many moments of deep concern in that first meeting. We could not speak their words, they not ours. But there was still common ground, our love of the Earthmother, for the land and crops she gives us.

My cousins and I would come to the farm when we had finished our chores, and would help them work the land, show them our ways. I recount many days trading the meeting of words with their eldest son. This and that, piece by piece, until we could understand one another with more than pointing and repeating our words. Our tribe’s friendship with this family grew, and as the fall festival came, we invited them to join our feasts. It was a grand time. Then …the band of Orcs came.

[Sigh] When it was over …only the eldest son lived. Their farm was burned to the ground. We placed their bodies among our dead, placing them below the soil as the sole survivor requested. The bodies of the Orcs ..we returned to the earth as well. The deepest, coldest part of winter set in much earlier that year than it had ever done. The Elders took it as a sign. The tribe packed up and left the Bitterroot Valley that had been our home for so many generations. We had a secret now. War was upon the Horde. It would strain the relationship with the Orcs if our secret were exposed. The Bitterroot clan dispersed and we scattered upon the wind. Many of my cousins I have not seen in many seasons. Some I see from time to time. Each time we greet, and still I see that secret in their eyes. It weighs on each of us.

I traveled with the human who survived as he made is way towards the human capitol. I could not make the last leg, but followed him as far as I dared. It’s this time of year that I think of him. When we can, I join one of my kin and we try to meet with our old friend. He has grown now, as have we. He stands among the rank and file of Holy Men, serving the Light. Something I understand, as I’ve joined the Sunwalkers, my cousin still a Hunter and Brave, though neither of us utter our clan name any more.

It was several fall seasons past, I met with an elder from our clan, a smith. He had something to give me, a set of armor I cherish still to this day, for it has served me well. Though, when he give it to me, it was much brighter, worked by wise hands with care and thought and prayer I’m certain. Now, it has been dulled, carrying a red hue these days from the many, many foes who have fallen against me, their lasts breathes uttering words they …don’t think I understand, their eyes gazing into mine as the light slips from them. I can’t get much of it out any more. It’s merely another sort of thing to remind me of the blood that was spilled so long ago.

With recent events with the Warchief, I ..imagine our past could be more reason to consider us traitors. But, many seasons ago, Cairne gave his word that we would support the Horde. We honor that word each day. Even when we are uncertain that Garrosh is fit to lead us. There will be one, someday, who is more worthy. I will wear my red. It will be a reminder of what has passed It will be a hope for what will come to pass. It will be there so we do not repeat mistakes we have once made, and we honor that which is worthy of honor.

I’m not sure if that classifies as a story from the ‘beginning’ of our characters, because it has been so long, long ago. But, I hope this was something interesting nonetheless.

So, for now, I think I’ll wrap this up, and give my apologies to the person who had to slog through my email. I hope it’s been easy to read this.

“Be well…”

Eranth / Wolfbrother

AIE Earthen Ring

PS – BattleTag for those who might be interested: Wolfbrother#188

Physician, heal thyself

Well here’s some audio for a change and did I miss hear last week or did you want WoW toon stories if so I have tried my hand at one sorry for any spelling or grammar errors but hey we all know how well me and that sort of stuff get on so with out further audue here is my story hope it’s ok if you didn’t want a story feel free to leave this out and just play the audio.

Caradre was a young night elf rouge her brother had left home 4 summers before to seek fame and fortune as a hunter and he sent many letters home detailing his adventures in such magical sounding places as nargrand she craved to adventure like her brother but her parents claimed she was to young and couldn’t understand why she took no notice of the many suitors that came calling. Her parents also claimed the fling she had had with a worgan warlock was a phase that she had just gone through making her mind up at the recent day of the dead festivals she had hide away upon a ship and ran from home. Her lover had taken up residents within stormwind’s dwarven district she had picked pocketed her way all the way to iron forge facing many challengers on her way she was down to her last few coppers when she snuck upon the tram from iron forge to stormwind soon she would be back in her lovers arms. Slinking past the guards of stormwind she slipped into a nearby shadowy ally way to catch her breath and get her bearings she didn’t hear her assailant approach the first she knew of him was his breath on the back of her neck and the blade at her ribs. In a rough voice he demanded her purse her hand slowly slipped to a hidden dagger at her waist holding up her purse she waited as his hand closed on it she thrust the dagger at his groin it glanced off his armour putting a gash into his thigh. He grunted and told her that was going to cost her before she could react she felt the blade slip between her ribs she stumbled from him only to be knocked to the ground by a blow to her head she laid dazed and bleeding on the ground as his rough hands checked her over she tried to speak to call out but all that came out was blood and spittle darkness soon closed in. A single tear lanced down her blood stained lips as she realized she was dieing her thoughts went to her brother her parents and her lover then no more thoughts she let out a sigh as the life slipped from her frail form. She felt her self becoming light and slowly rising up from her still form before she could get to far from her body a warm purple glow enveloped her she was thrust back into her form with force her back arched as she sucked in a breath her eyes flying open without focus. She blurry saw something deep blue hovering near by pinning something to the wall that whimpered and moaned as she roller her head away from the sight she saw a figure above her one hand outstretched towards the pinned target a beam of bright green seemed to be lancing from her palm as a ball of green formed in her other palm. She hurt all over and was cold as something green and glowing was thrust at her and she heard Nierthelia’s voice urging her to take it as her clumsy hands closed around the glowing sphere she felt even more life surge back into her causing her to gasp once again. Metarions deep un earthly voiced washed over her as he asked his mistress if she still needed the cut purse anymore a wolfish smile spread across Nierthelia face as she slowly shakes her head the whimpering from the man redoubles and is cut short as what sounds like a melon popping fills the ally way and the Voidlord retakes his mistress side. Helping her to her feet Nierthelia holds her close as Caradre buries her face into her furry bosom and weeps as he lover leads her away from her closest brush with the spirit healer yet.

P.S not sent from my Ipad air

Big G

Addon Spotlight:

with Grand Nagus

Shout Outs & Thank You

Clan of Darkness

Hello Ctrlaltwow Crew

It has never happened that I write to you 2 weeks in a row but I come bearing a gift.

I won the top 25 in Guild activity competition we had last week in the game. I won an Armored Bloodwing and I thank Donnie for the gift. I already have this mount so I thought I would give it to you Ladies to give away.

You might be able to have a competition of your own and get somebody to make you a new Email bumper.

Anyway I love the new line up. You Ladies are awesome. Have a great week.